But this is, after all, New York, where a certain class of go-getter will always look askance at anyone leaving a desk before sunset.
It has even dawned on some managers that precious minutes are wasted every time an employee leaves a desk to walk up the road to a coffee bar, even if they order a drink in a paper cup to take back to work.
It was the first time the thought of jumping into the restaurant biz and leaving a desk job behind seemed like a reasonable idea to me.
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Accelerometers were tested before field work started, including 60 min of sedentary time (left on a desk), being worn for a 30 min walk, and being left recording data recording overnight.
There was a modern bathroom, a flat-screen television and an iPhone docking station, but no room left for a desk or even a chair.
In other cases, like a break-in at a town hall in Tongeren, the thieves simply helped themselves to a safe key that had thoughtlessly been left in a desk drawer.
There was a time in the early 2000s when it seemed every studio I visited had a well-thumbed copy of this challenging but fascinating novel left on a desk somewhere.
It won't make any difference to the battery life when you're actively using a device, but if left on a desk or table for extended periods it should boost battery life considerably.
Cards get left on a desk, never to be looked at again.
